sure worked out for Scientology!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LmZXK0XzNW0&list=UU9rJrMVgcXTfa8xuMnbhAEA - video
https://pivottoai.libsyn.com/20250904-openai-is-using-legal-threats-to-harass-its-critics - podcast
time: 10 min 32 sec
Lol, like Musk could do anything like this privately, and not post about it on twitter.
E: unrelated to that, but Altman looks like one of the antagonists from the movie Aliens: https://gizmodo.com/app/uploads/2024/04/c1178b6b21888026dbd2ae9ba7e97bc8.jpg
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Still from the movie Aliens, a guy looking a bit like Sam Altman, rougly same facial shape and hair, is talking while the badass military woman from the marine team is looking at him in a somewhat dismissive way. The colors are muted and it is slightly shadowy, giving it a dark feeling.
I was thinking, Sam doesn’t look like a younger Andrew Cuomo, but that’s the most Cuomo-ass expression. “HOW DARE YOU”
On a purely strategic level I think it’s worth acknowledging that openAI has a very specific goal and counternarrative here. Scientology’s incredibly broad attacks on even Australian randos that nobody cared about was a strong signal that they didn’t actually have a goal beyond hurting people, but I think Altman and friends do. There are reasons why he’s not targeting DAIR, for example. Or you (yet). They’re going very specifically for the people interfering in their attempt to unravel their absurd corporate structure into something that investors are willing to keep pumping money into, and trying, ironically, to paint them as compromised by big money. They’re not going for blanket defamation claims or anything so blatant.
Honestly I’m a little surprised that Zitron hasn’t gotten flak, given his focus on the financials and how important this transition is for the continued existence of OpenAI as a business. But then as I think about it I guess they haven’t been targeting journalists or commentators, just actual parties to the suit. If it starts going badly I wonder if they’ll expand the legal threats.
If they were to sue Zitron, it would mean they would have to reveal things during discovery. Their financials could be even worse than we think.
yeah, but it’s a sure giveaway on which criticisms really hit home. So focus on governance.
The rich abuse our legal systems and it is getting worse.
The president had been involved in more than 10,000 lawsuits just at the time of his first presidency I once heard. Never faced a single real consequence for it.
Partly that is because the state of New York is rotten to the core don’t let the D next to their names fool you. They have always been a lousy corrupt state that thinks they are better than everybody else.
There has to be a way to hit these slaap suitors back with lawsuits to make them pay for doing it.
We can learn something from the Antichrist Peter Thiel that took down that news organization what was it called, by sponsoring multiple lawsuits through third parties, taking them down with their publication of Hulk Hogan’s Affair or something. Was it Grappler?
Regardless we should do stuff like that, crowdsource funding for lawsuits, maybe via private groups connected to the Fediverse here.
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